Everyone else is talking about the iPad. I want to be meta too!
This is the first part of many a similar rant to come. There’s just too much going on right now in tech to put it in one post. Besides, I’ve been missing my blog-therapy lately.
Everyone and everybody is going all googoo and gaga over the latest fruit-flavored tech, the iPad. I admit it does look cool and for most of what it’s marketed for, should work well. For all intensive purposes, it’s just a big iPod Touch but that’s not a bad thing, at all. It’ll be sweet for reading and for the myriad of apps for it will make the experience even more awesome, but it lacks some basic functions for me to ever contemplate it as a useful device between my laptop and my phone. I want easy communication and the full Internet, not the mobile Internet. I want something more like my laptop than my phone. Sadly, the Fruit company is marketing the iPad as the best way to view the internet, and it’s just not so. You’ll have to download and install an app to get most of the functionality of the more commercial sites out there, and you’re just out of luck for some sites that use flash or complicated JavaScript. I’m sure they’ll start creating iPad friendlier sites or apps, but that just adds to segregation of the Internet, which I hate (more on that later). However, if you’re fine with browsing the Internet through your iPhone, you’ll be happy to view it on a larger screen, methinks.
I put the iPad into the toy category of tech. An Internet appliance that has a lot of cool things going for it (read; App Store/e-books). Even if I were to ignore my iHate for Apple, I just cannot justify the cost vs functionality for my wants. If I was in the market for an e-reader/picture frame/media device and was OK with being nickle’d and dimed on all angles (adapters and apps), I’d contemplate getting an iPad. Maybe even one for my 11 year old (If I had $500 to spare). Of course, $500 gets you a pretty good full-fledged laptop nowadays. For now, I just hope that the iPad will fuel manufacturers into making a device that fits my uses better. –here’s to hope!
So I’d written this but hadn’t posted it yet when my good friend Geo, posted a blog entry yesterday reminiscing about my attitude towards the iPhone back in 2007. It really made me lol (because it’s true). Yes, I have a similar attitude with the iPad, but hey, I always admit when I realize I’m wrong. This time, at least I’ve organized my iHate in respect to my personal requirements for a similar device instead of assuming everyone should think like I do.. so that’s at least some progress, right?
Dude, What Happened to Your Posts?
Yeah. I had the strangest thing happen. I host this (among a few other sites) from my home server. It recently gave me a BSOD from which I found out the system file was corrupted. Ok, no big deal, I’ve fixed many a disaster. Oh wait! I had turned off my scheduled backups and the last one I had was over 6 months ago! Shiz. Still, no problem. I booted up Knoppix, replaced the file with system.sav, booted up and ran chckdsk. All was fixed, I replaced the original system file and booted. Yay!
But wait. Something’s wrong here. It’s like there was a system restore that took the system back months and months.. INCLUDING DATA! Server 2003 R2 doesn’t have system restore so WTF? I even had to reinstall previous windows updates.. I lost my taxes that I did on the box and several downloads. Whoa. And yes, I lost the few blog posts I’ve made recently. So strange. I’m sure I’ll figure it out once or if I ever get the time. This is a good excuse to move everything over to Vmware esxi and find myself a Server 2008 license.
I use Windows live Writer so I’ll repost the previously lost blogs.. not that anyone cares, but this is my therapy, remember? I’d hate to lose those sessions.
Another lesson learned; Don’t neglect your backup policy!
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